Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

Common sense is very uncommon.